Every career person should have a goal that drives them. If your goal is to hit the summit of your career, here are some tips that can propel you to your desired height.

Do what you love

The usual counsel is that you love what you do. But that is getting out of fashion. These days, you have to do what you love. If you love what you do, that is forced love and it never lasts. What lasts the distance is you doing what you love. Such love is innate and has the backing of inner energy.

If you see what you do as a hobby, you will never get tired of it. READ MORE AT NIGERIAN TRIBUNE

Jenny was a 24-year-old Air Force pilot who used to work in the accounting section of an interior design organization. One day, she realized another team was going through some difficult times. She kindly offered to help.

Surprisingly, she received this response in an email from her boss: “Number crunchers lack leadership skills.” Seriously?

Jenny, a determined Latina if there ever was one, decided to write to her boss’ boss (let's call him John) explaining how she could help her colleagues. READ MORE AT FORBES

While Hispanics have median household income that’s about 20% lower than the overall median average, their sheer size means that they’re approaching $1 trillion in aggregate household income this year. That’s according to a new report from Geoscape, which looks at multicultural trends in the US.

The median household income for Hispanics this year is estimated to be close to $45k, below the $57k average. (More household income stats here.) Almost one-fifth (19%) of the US population identifies as Hispanic, and two-thirds of the Hispanic population hail from Mexico. READ MORE AT MARKETING CHARTS

It takes a certain kind of person enjoys networking — and I mean that in the best way. Being good at it requires lacking enough self-consciousness to get out there and talk to people, but having enough self-awareness to make the experience a positive one for the other party as well. You don't want the interaction to feel transactional, but you don't want to waste your time, or someone else's, either. READ MORE AT REFINERY 29

Is your career not going the way you’d expected? Maybe you were hoping for a promotion, but didn’t receive it. Or maybe you’ve been going on interviews to land that higher-level dream job, but it’s just not happening.

Instead of getting frustrated, now is the time to get analytical and strategic. READ MORE AT FORBES

The annual growth rate of the U.S. Hispanic population remained flat between 2016 and 2017, but Hispanics continue to account for more of the nation’s overall population growth than any other race or ethnicity, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of preliminary population estimates from the Census Bureau. READ MORE AT PEW RESEARCH CENTER

Startups are brave. Startups also need a lot of support in varying forms. Most are looking for both investment funding as well as skilled individuals to assist them. There is no better place for a startup company than a conference or networking event. These events provide startups with the opportunity to meet those people who can offer them indispensable advice, opportunities and insight.
Connect with the best so you can learn

Smart startups know that the ideal way to learn what they need to know about their industry and the marketplace is to connect with the best. READ MORE AT BIZ COMMUNITY

The effort to ensure increased recruitment and retention of Latino federal employees has largely stalled since the Clinton administration, and leaders of Latino federal workers said Tuesday that President Donald Trump should revive and fund the effort through executive order.

President Bill Clinton signed executive order 13171 in 2000 that sought to influence federal agency directors to use their discretionary funding to make Hispanic employment a priority. READ MORE AT FEDERAL TIMES

Latinos, the largest minority in the nation, and the largest racial or ethnic group in California and Los Angeles, are virtually disappearing from the big screen, a new report on Hollywood diversity shows.

The film and television business, which is in the midst of taking more than $1.5 billion in credits from California taxpayers, has essentially made no progress in major-film casting of people of color since 2007, USC's annual "Inequality in 900 Popular Films" report found. This despite being lambasted by critics in recent years.

The paper's analysis of the 100 top-grossing films of 2016 found that Latinos captured only 3.1 percent of big-screen roles. READ MORE AT LA WEEKLY

You’re unusually lucky if you know exactly what you want to do in life — or feel like your current job is perfect for you. Most people need a little guidance to hit their sweet spot, whether the question is how to translate a new degree into a great position, how to quit a job and start over; how to change roles or get promoted; or whether and when to go back to school for a graduate degree.

If you’re in need of help, you’re not alone. READ MORE AT FORBES

While going through school and anticipating your future, you may have had a notion of a career that went a little something like this: (1) pick a field to work in and (2) continue to work your way up in that field until you’re ready to retire. Maybe you watched your parents and grandparents follow this path or read about it in career advice books written by the authors of yesteryear.

But the truth is that younger generations aren’t dedicating themselves to 20 or 30 years in a single job or field anymore. Instead, the average time spent at a job has been drastically slashed to three years, and individuals are doing more career pivots and job hops. READ MORE AT FORBES

Millennials. Currently, this group makes up the largest generation living in the United States. With approximately 79.8 million millennials, as reported by Pew Research Center, obtaining, maintaining and retaining consumers from this particular consumer segment is the golden ticket for retailers.

Nielson research confirms that multicultural millennials make up 42 percent of the overall millennial population, and 47 percent of those multicultural millennials have a significant impact on the U.S.’s entire gross domestic product. As such, a key demographic of the millennial population on which retailers may want to zero in: the Hispanic group. This group is moving up fast in the retail world. READ MORE AT PYMNTS.COM

Every cloud has a silver lining. And when it comes to the current status of the retail industry, which ranges from "bleak to promising, according to Business.com, that silver lining consists of Hispanic millennials. In fact, regardless of the state of retail at large, Hispanic millennials — especially Latinas — are the new now of retail, and their impact on your bottom line may be more than you realize. READ MORE AT MEDIAPOST

Latinas with abusive, jealous novios, ex-novios (boyfriends) or husbands be warned — you have a higher than likely chance of dying at the hands of that guy who says he loves you with his fists or verbal punches.

So reports a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The CDC found that homicide is the leading cause of death for women ages 18-44. In 2015, 3,519 girls and women were murdered. In those cases, almost half of the victims were killed by a current or ex “male intimate partner.” READ MORE LATINA LISTA

Networking is all about people, building relationships, sharing relationships and being able to get more done in a shorter amount of time with people you trust.

Everyone wants to learn how to build more relationships and expand their network. But what about the things you can do to ruin a relationship and its chances of being fruitful without even knowing it?

Here are three ways to lose your network's trust:

1. Gossip about your network.

When I hear someone talking trash about someone in my network, I wonder what they say when I am not around. READ MORE AT BIZJOURNALS

No matter what level job an employee works in, there often comes a time when he or she wants to seek out a new challenge, or expand on their area of expertise, and begins considering new employment opportunities.

"I firmly believe there is never a bad time to explore new job opportunities," said Cheryl Hyatt, CEO and partner of Hyatt-Fennell Executive Search. "I think that people need to continually keep an eye out for what's happening out there on the job market in their particular field." READ MORE AT THE BUSINESS JOURNALS

There’s nothing like an Instagram photo of someone's beautiful vacation to make you feel like you’ve been bitten by the travel bug. The account @travel_latina is full of these kinds of pics and with a couple scrolls through their feed, there’s no doubt you’ll get major wanderlust.

According to the account’s bio, expect to see “Womxn of the Latin American & Caribbean diaspora traveling the world” and it is compiled of submissions from members of those communities. Women of all shapes, sizes, ages and cultural backgrounds can be seen posing in front of amazing landmarks and scenic views around the world. READ MORE AT LATINA

Annual hotel openings have nearly tripled over the past five years, according to a recent forecast by Statista. Just who’s expected to fill all these new rooms moving forward? Rather than think in age demographics (baby boomers vs. Millennials), it’s time for the hospitality industry to recognize a powerful yet largely untapped target audience: U.S. Hispanics.

Now taking more vacations across every income level — and spending nearly READ MORE AT O'DWYER'S

Many Hispanic people in the U.S. have been financially stable as of late and believe the economy is headed in the right direction, but that doesn’t mean they’re on President Trump’s side just yet.

The majority of Hispanics (78 percent) around the country expect to be better off financially in the next year and more than half (51 percent) believe the economy will become stronger over the next five years, according to the latest national survey conducted by FAU’s Business and Economics Polling Initiative (BEPI). READ MORE AT UNIVERSITY PRESS

Target Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell is sounding alarm bells over the state of Hispanic shoppers in the U.S. -- a key growth demographic for many retailers and consumer brands.

“The Hispanic consumer in the U.S. is shopping much less,” Cornell said at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech event Tuesday in Aspen, Colorado. “They are staying home. They are going out less often.” READ MORE AT BLOOMBERG